Ecosystem

Mid-stream refusals were billed already. What is new is the case where the answer never starts.

The chat log was alarming enough to trigger an internal review at OpenAI. The company still has not handed it over.

There are cots and showers on the floor, in case a storm keeps the technicians overnight. Some of them ride scooters because the corridors run too long to walk.

No licences, no mandatory prerelease review. Ten national safety institutes are named outright, and governments are left to decide what they adopt.

A statement of interest binds no court. It still fixes what counts as the government's official position.

Its subject list includes recursive self-improvement, biosecurity and the law of armed conflict: Vals measures whether a model can apply the Geneva Conventions.

The compute bill has climbed from $600bn to $856bn since February. The projected cash burn fell over the same stretch.

Nadella testified he would have demanded a retrain had he known about paywall scraping. Greg Brockman's reply to a paywall workaround was 'ah nice'.

The legal index searches more than 230 million URLs. The case law inside it comes from a non-profit, not from a publisher.

Crux AI only launched this month, on five billion in equity. For chief development officer it hired the man who built Meta's data centers.

Among Germans who have heard a lot about AI, 26 percent are more concerned than excited. Among those who have heard little, it's 41.

Marc Benioff is in as an angel. Factory is now valued at $5 billion — in April it was one and a half.

Chughtai actually left DeepMind back in July. He published his statement two months later — on the very day Trump called the industry's warnings a hoax.

OpenAI has filed confidentially, but it is not going public this year. The interesting part is Altman's reason: not the market, but the safety debate.

In OpenAI's new customer story, Perplexity cofounder Johnny Ho says Astra edits and monitors their live systems - and that he checks in on it far less often than he used to.

Simon Willison had two running loops built from OpenStreetMap data. The result is right, but he can't see how it got there: compaction had already swallowed the code.

The storage platform Habitat started in 2023 as a small Python library. Today it holds 500 petabytes and is moving to Rust piece by piece.

No new sign-ups for the $200 tier. The API, Go and Plus keep running, and OpenAI is not saying when this ends.

One API call and the agent runs: task, model, tools, environment. No markup on top of tokens. Anthropic staked out the same ground with Managed Agents, on the same day.

OpenAI reworked image generation: up to 50 percent lower latency, reference photos that stay recognizable, and Flare and Sunburst for developers.